Rodrik Harlaw's "Dead History" Speech (ASOIAF reading)

[@valkyristasoiafreadings]

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[@juanpablomina1346]

"I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."

[@ThatAnimalBlundetto]

Man, when George has it, few can match it.

[@omriex7]

“Now all I see are crows, squabbling over the corpse of Westeros”

[@h1153]

Did not remember that he was reading from Arch Maester Marwyn, neat little detail!

[@JoeyKen-m8k]

Came here to make this same comment. "...his search." Ominous

[@ravenstrategist1325]

Rodrik Harlaw, an underrated character

[@jay_ds4800]

Literally the best ironborn, and by far the smartest that isn’t insane (I know low bar)

[@MrThorfan64]

Probably the smartest man on the Iron Islands, and one of the smartest men in Westeros.

[@Argos-xb8ek]

Roderick the Based.

[@shifatmohiuddin5748]

What the Iron Islands really need is a leader like Rodrik Harlaw.

[@kiwwat4139]

He has the single solitary braincell that still exists on the Iron Islands. Sometimes he lends it to Asha.

[@MrThorfan64]

@@kiwwat4139 Euron has a braincell, it's just that he's evil.

[@MrThorfan64]

Sadly even in the real word we too often choose the likes of Euron, who speak well and act with glamour and excitement, over the stuffy over nerdy Rodrik Harlaws.

[@shifatmohiuddin5748]

@@MrThorfan64 Agreed. Charisma often hides ignorance and incompetence.

[@MrThorfan64]

@@shifatmohiuddin5748 After all, on Aeron's first POV he mentions that Balon made the Iron Islands great again. And when you look at analyses of the Iron Islands you see how based they are on a lot of US culture. Their rebellions and obsession with their noble heritage of slaving invokes the Confederates. And it is aged horribly well as they elect as their leader a monstrously evil individual, who boasts about the taboos he breaks, but who promises such pie in the sky stuff that they cheer him into power.

[@jordanalexander6935]

This hits different

[@misraelalves4984]

Rodrik Harlow e um homem sensato.

[@lordbloodraven9347]

Rodrick the reader